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Originally Posted by Pinecone
The funny thing is, if this is due to the textbook thing, is the text book publishers are also not getting it. Reduce the price to something reasonable and more poeple would just buy and keep them. At least those in their major. I still reference some of my textbooks.
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The problem is though, speaking as a former textbook author myself, that textbooks are very expensive to produce, and have a very small target audience, which is not particularly price-sensitive. Halve the price of a textbook, and you probably won't sell noticeably more copies. I'm afraid the economics of textbook publishing mean that you're never going to see $10 physics textbooks (my former field).